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by bad_user 3y ago
People don't necessarily have children in order to be taken care of later. People have children because that's what people do, reproduction being one of life's joys and purpose.
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by bad_user 3y ago
If you don’t bother to compose an email in your own words, why would you expect other people to read all that ChatGPT-generated shit? Generative AI will have to get really good to not be detected, because many of us will treat such emails a
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by bad_user 3y ago
DuckDuckGo uses Bing under the hood, as they don't have their own index. AFAIK Kagi uses Bing under the hood too. If people use them, it's basically due to UI and privacy theater.
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by bad_user 3y ago
I'm not a US citizen, and racism may be the issue. OTOH, given US's geography and culture of wide streets, suburbs, and driving around, it's pretty obvious that public transit is pricier than it is in Europe, similarly to bro
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by bad_user 3y ago
London is very expensive, driving Londoners out of the city. It's nice that they have public transport, but it's not helping much, unless you're saying that it could have been much worse. And despite being praised for public
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by bad_user 3y ago
It depends on how popular the library gets before the plug gets pulled. If it's popular, it can survive because it's Open Source, and it actually has an advantage over actual proprietary platforms.
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by bad_user 3y ago
I wanted to like Bitwarden, due to its “open source” nature. But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's
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by bad_user 3y ago
Modern medicine acts on available evidence, not unverified hypothesis. I am not dismissive of observational studies. I am dismissive of the attitude of the public when reading observational studies.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Actually, curent research suggests that the Placebo effect is just spurious results in measurements.
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by bad_user 3y ago
I do not disagree with your opinion. I also think more research is needed. However, one must not read too much into observational studies, either, as many times their interpretation isn't corroborated by stronger science. A good resour
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by bad_user 3y ago
I am not talking about the linked study, but about the linked YouTube video of the parent. But if you want to talk science, new studies don't disprove what was found before. That's not how science works. The consensus is that LDL
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by bad_user 3y ago
I've been in the Keto community for years, until I realized that the whole community is full of quacks, indeed. There's no intelligent discussion to be had because the Keto “science” has been proven wrong repeatedly. At this point
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by bad_user 3y ago
Indeed. The videos from that “Low Carb Down Under” channel are as scientifically accurate as anti-vaxxing or homeopathy.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Meta/Facebook was told that they don't have a legitimate interest in behavioral advertising. They'll need to ask for consent: https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/the-eu-war-on-behavior... Meta also bro
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by bad_user 3y ago
I'm going to repeat … cookie banners are not necessary for functionality that the user expects to receive as part of the service provided. And yes, this is part of the ePrivacy Directive. And indeed, the cookie banners that only “notif
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by bad_user 3y ago
In a democracy, the government represents the will and the interests of the citizens in that country. If UK citizens don't want such laws, they can always protest, at the voting booth or in the streets. It's not the job of multina
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by bad_user 3y ago
The IAB consent dialog is the worst, as it makes you consent to the entire advertising industry. Those legitimate interests, however, are bullshit. Just because they claim it, doesn't mean it's true. For instance, a DPA just claim
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by bad_user 3y ago
Cookies for functionality that's necessary, i.e. expected by the user, are completely legal without any consent or notification. Fact of the matter is, when you see a cookie banner, that's always for spyware shit that the service
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by bad_user 3y ago
I the dialog comes up repeatedly after deny, that's illegal in the EU actually. Also, I don't know what the posters above are talking about, but more and more dialogs these days have a working Reject All button. Including that of
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by bad_user 3y ago
Did you know Lichess is built in Scala 3 ;-)
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by bad_user 3y ago
Async in Python, for a long time, has been a horrible hack relying on monkey patching the socket module. The newer asyncio stuff is quite nice by comparison, but the problem is that Python, due to its popularity, has libraries that haven&#x
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by bad_user 3y ago
It's not the same thing. The TLDR is that it needs “function coloring” which isn't necessarily bad, types themselves are “colors”, the problem being what you're trying to accomplish. In an FP language, it's good to have
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by bad_user 3y ago
Java has been used for soft real-time systems, such as payment processors or real-time bidding. For a GC-ed language, its latency guarantees can be pretty OK due to having good garbage collectors and runtime optimizations. But, yes, obvious
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by bad_user 3y ago
True. Although, I find that in practice Kotlin's coloring is quite pleasant to use due to the calling conventions and the tooling.
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by bad_user 3y ago
The compile-time features end up being supported. The runtime features (e.g., invokeDynamic) less so. OTOH, Android would benefit from virtual threads, too, which is one of the reasons they've jumped feet-first on the Kotlin train (and
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by bad_user 3y ago
China is not governed by the "rule of law". If the CCP wants something, the CCP gets. In the US, the government can coerce US companies with handing over data, but they need a warrant, they have limits on what they can do with tha
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by bad_user 3y ago
The “Schrems II verdict” does not say that US's data protections are “absolutely inadequate”, whatever that means. What it says is that US's protections are not equivalent, but guess what that says about China. In any comparison o
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by bad_user 3y ago
The existence of a God isn't incompatible with the laws of the universe, because if God exists, then it exists outside this universe. As such, it is a textbook definition of a non-falsifiable concept, and you're setting up a straw
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by bad_user 3y ago
Right. Well, we can agree to disagree that we can derive ethics from observations of the natural world. We might be able to do that, if we were more enlightened or had greater resources at disposal, but we are far from being there. Human be
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by bad_user 3y ago
Those "cancellation tokens" from C# are a band-aid. In Java, you don't need to initialize those "tokens" manually, because the interruption signal is baked into Threads. Moreover, a lot of the standard library coope

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